a year marked by destructive fire.

The 15th century in Italy, considered in terms of its art and architecture.

Of times or places: Marked by famine or scarcity of food; famine-stricken. the hungry forties, the decade beginning in 1840, characterized in the…

Of or belonging to the eighteenth century. Also as n.

the third decade of the twentieth cent., the 1920s, esp. characterized as a period of post-war buoyancy, optimism, and change.

(a) the 1930s characterized as a period of social permissiveness or moral laxity (rare); (b) North American (now esp. Canadian) the Great Depression…